WHY DID PARTHO DIE……….

WHY DID PARTHO DIE……….

He was young . He was intelligent. He was a dutiful son. He occupied a very senior position in a MNC. His friends loved him . He was planning to get married.But he died.

I could not stop myself asking the Father : ” WHY DID PARTHO DIE……….”

I could feel him smile , but he was sombre.

“Let us split your question .

Partho died . This is a statement that you find difficult to get reconciled

to .Let us move to next statement , more of a question.

DID PARTHO DIE ?

Are you sure of it . someone told you . is’nt it. They must have seen his body cease to exist . Does he cease to exist?

” You go to your destined office driving your Red car. Are you the Red car ? your friends must have associated you with that particular red car bearing that particular registration number.

If your car engine siezed one day and fails to rev up , and you take another blue car, with another registration number , to drive you to office , would they say you died? But if the heart in his body arrested and failed to revive , and he moves into another body , you say he died.

Was he the body or he lived in that body to execute his Karma ? You lived in a flat in Hyderabad . Were you the flat, or you used the flat to live and carry out your activities related to the job you held. ? you left the flat and moved to bangalore , live in another flat, changed the job and carry on activities related to that job. Do you call it dying ?

If he left the body he was using for a particular job assigned to him as per his Karmic accounts, and moved into another body to carry out another job, would you call it dying ? “

” But Father , when I move to bangalore , I can still be in touch with my friends in hyderabad. He cannot . “

” You had a lot of friends when you were in school . You are not in contact with them for last forty years. Are they dead or have you died for them?

As you grow old , some of your friends will leave their body. you have not met them since last two years. would they be dead for you since your last meeting. “

” Of course not , Father . I have been remembering them , thinking about them . They have been very much alive . “

” Ask any of Partho’s good friend. Can anyone put his hand on his heart and say – he does not remember Partho, He does not think of Partho . If Partho lives in their heart can he ever die ? He will live as long as his good friends live.

Has he attained immortality or has he died? “

” Now , to the first part of your question : why ? Do you still need an answer?